Where:
More Than Words
242 East Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02118
Admission:
Unknown
Categories:
Art, History, LGBT, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup, Social Good
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-great-believers-book-talk-with-rebecca-makkai-tickets-95710746419
More Than Words Presents: The Great Believers Book Talk
Join author Rebecca Makkai for a reading and signing of her book, The Great Believers.
“At turns heartbreaking and hopeful, the novel brings the first years of the AIDS epidemic into very immediate view, in a manner that will seem nostalgic to some and revelatory to others…Makkai’s sweeping fourth novel shows the compassion of chosen families and the tension and distance that can exist in our birth ones.”—Library Journal
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Finalist for the National Book Award
Winner of the ALA Carnegie Medal
Winner of the LA Times Book Prize
Winner of the Stonewall Award
New York Times Ten Best Books of 2018
Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the LA Times Book Prize, among other honors. Makkai is on the MFA faculties of Sierra Nevada College and Northwestern University, and she is Artistic Director of StoryStudio Chicago.
Ticketing: Ticket proceeds support More Than Words, empowering system involved youth through job training and mentor ship. Tickets are available on a pay-what-you-can basis, and are not tax deductible donations. Set your own ticket price and receive a copy of the book when you give over $16.
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